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[Still Life Composition with Developing Trays and Chemicals on Breuer chair / stool]

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American Photographer · 1911–1998

Scholars know little about Nelly Peissachowitz except that she took classes at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, during the 1932-1933 academic year and later moved to New York. At the Bauhaus she made photographic still lifes and studies of materials.

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Date: 1932–1933
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Nelly Peissachowitz created a kind of self-portrait as a photographer using the crackled and stained tools of her trade. This still-life composition with photographic developing equipment was probably a student exercise for the Vorkurs. The Vorkurs was a preliminary course that each student completed before becoming an apprentice in one of the specialized workshops such as furniture-making or weaving. It aimed to encourage a creative approach to composition and materials.

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